Product Description: Examine the evolution of developmentally appropriate practice with this biographical history of early childhood education. This book explores the theory's progression—from its beginnings in writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophers, its experimental implementation by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practitioners, and its scientific grounding in contemporary theory and research—and includes biographical sketches and perspectives of eleven philosophical, pedagogical, and theoretical figures—the giants—in this evolution...read more

Charts the baby-boom generation's obsession with raising successful children and the adverse results experienced by youngsters asked to do too much too soon, and offers advice on avoiding this syndrome.

Product Description: La experiencia de casi tres décadas con niños de la sección maternal permitió a David Elkind elaborar una investigación reveladora sobre los diversos problemas que acarrea una educación apresurada en los primeros años escolares...read more

Experts in various fields of child development, from psychology to linguistics, shed new light on the art of parenting children from ages two to six, sharing a wealth of advice, information, and practical suggestions on how to deal with a wide variety of behavioral and development issues. (view table of contents)

Charts the baby-boom generation's obsession with raising successful children and the adverse results experienced by youngsters asked to do too much too soon, and offers advice on avoiding this syndrome. Reprint.

Product Description: This pithy tome presents a different method of child-rearing than that of our current culture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Once our society set aside time for adolescents to grow from children to adults, to become accustomed to their expanding bodies and minds. Now the markers that defined passage—differences in dress, behavior, and responsibilities—have vanished. The institutions that guarded adolescence, such as family and schools, now expect “young adults” to deal with adult issues. Those trends leave teens no time to be teens.All Grown Up and No Place to Go spotlights the pressures on teenagers to grow up quickly. The resulting problems range from common alienation to self-destructive behavior. Quoting teenagers themselves, Elkind shows why adolescence is a time of “thinking in a new key,” and how young people need this time to get used to the social and emotional changes their new thinking brings. Many of his ideas, such as the “imaginary audience” that makes teens so self-conscious, have become seminal in adolescent psychology.Already there are more than 175,000 copies of All Grown Up and No Place to Go in print. In this thoroughly revised edition, Elkind also explores the “post-modern family” in which teenagers are growing up. He helps parents and those who work with youth and understand teens in crucial ways, because the root of so many adolescent frictions is the gap between what teenagers need and what our culture provides. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Within these covers, some of America's best-known educators, psychologists, and clergy members examine spiritual life among youth from many different cultural backgrounds. They share inspiring stories of young people rescued from lives of violence, neglect, and despair...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A sensitive guide for '90s parents navigates them through the most complex years they face with their children, a time in which rebellion masks self-doubt and fear about such issues as sexuality and peer pressure. Reprint.

A noted child psychologist and author of The Hurried Child discusses the effects of today's society on child-rearing values, warning parents about the affects of putting adult responsibilities on children and analyzing the structure of postmodern families. UP.

Product Description: This unique book is an accessible, "child-centered" introduction to child growth and development. It presents the most up-to-date information in descriptive terms to inform readers about how children look, sound, and behave. Practical and research-based, without being research oriented, it looks at children over small time periods to reveal patterns of growth and development...read more

Product Description: Book by Elkind, David

Product Description: Trying to be in the same place in helping children.

Provides evidence that young children and school-aged children learn in totally different ways and, on that basis, takes issue with the current trend toward early formed academic and physical instruction for children to age four

Nine essays examine the theories, thought, work, and discoveries of the Swiss psychologist

Product Description: A collection of essays covering a broad range of topics, including day care, the roots of homosexuality, generational conflict, and children's concepts of life and death. "Richly suggestive." --Contemporary Psychology